Honestly I personally, selfishly, hope Lemmy never gets anywhere near Facebook or Twitter huge.

Most people are fucking boring idiot assholes, full of actually boring and stupid ideas and opinions they only think are clever or notable because them and their social circle are broadly ignorant and hypnotized by marketing.

I prefer a smaller community where people at least tend toward not being idiots, and not being boring.

I don't want to hear from a celebrity, as their celebrity self.

I don't want advertising to be viable.

You are right; most people do not care about things that they should, if they actually believed half the things they say they do. Most people are enormously massive hypocrites about most things, whether theyre aware of that or not.

I am under no illusion that people, broadly, when freely handed the solution to a large chunk of their problems, will use it, if it means they suffer any kind of inconvenience whatsoever.

I am under no illusion that most people want what they claim they want; they just want to be popular, or be where the most other people are.

If Bluesky dies and the users go back to Twitter, they never believed in anything more than 'I want to be part of the herd.'

What you identify as a lack of water, I see as a functioning primary filtration system that prevents microplastic infected water from coming in to the system.

Keep Lemmy Weird.

I also find it odd that you would likely describe all that as anti-social.

... having preferences for the kind of people you enjoy socializing with... is not anti social. You seem to be functionally saying that not starting a massive marketing drive, that in itself is anti social.

This to me is either completely insane, or you don't understand what 'anti-social' means.

The corporate paradigm for social media... that is anti-social. 'Demonstrates a chronic pattern of disregarding the rights and well-bring of others.' They literally act as fine-tuned personalized, digital drugs to manipulate your thoughts and emotions, by exploiting your weaknesses.